Behind the Headlines with Nick Schifrin

This event is being held in-person and is open to everyone.

Amid shifting global dynamics and heightened international conflict, the complex realities shaping news cycles can be overlooked. PBS News Hour’s Foreign and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin has earned accolades for his ability to highlight the individual circumstances behind major global conflicts and events.

Join Global Minnesota and Nick Schifrin for a fireside chat on the elements behind the headlines of current international developments. From early career breakthroughs in Pakistan to recent coverage in Gaza and Ukraine, Nick offers a nuanced and personal approach to some of the most pressing issues in international affairs. This event will allow foreign affairs experts and curious learners alike to challenge the established understandings of today’s foreign policy landscape.

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Parking Information: Paid parking is available in the Minneapolis Club Ramp, accessible via the 8th Street entrance. Street parking is also available.

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Speaker: Nick Schifrin

Nick Schifrin is PBS News Hour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent. He leads News Hour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, and has created weeklong series for the News Hour from nearly a dozen countries.

The PBS News Hour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a 2017 Peabody Award and the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. In 2020 he received the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the News Hour teams awarded a 2021 Peabody for coverage of COVID-19, and a 2023 DuPont Columbia Award for coverage of Afghanistan and Ukraine.

Prior to PBS News Hour, Nick was Al Jazeera America’s Middle East correspondent. He led the channel’s coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza; reported on the Syrian war from Syria’s Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders; and covered the annexation of Crimea. He won an Overseas Press Club award for his Gaza coverage and a National Headliners Award for his Ukraine coverage.

From 2008-2012, Nick served as the ABC News correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011 he was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after Osama bin Laden’s death and delivered one of the year’s biggest exclusives: the first video from inside bin Laden’s compound. His reporting helped ABC News win an Edward R. Murrow award for its bin Laden coverage.

Nick is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a Master of International Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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